Well they love to drink wine here!! Good news for us 🙂

The beauty is hard to describe.

Days 1 & 2 in Venice can be captured with one word….LOST!  Oh my, Venice is hard to navigate. We’ve spent a significant amount of time lost. It was kind of a novelty at first, but it wears on you after many hours of wondering. Nonetheless we stop frequently to local places to have wine & appetizers. We even occasionally look at the map…not that it helps any.

The food is incredible. This is last nights dinner.
We spent last evening in a pub crawl, enjoying as many local places as we could.

Today we visited St. Marks Square & Rialto Bridge. Managed to find a SIM card in our walkabout, so that was helpful.

It’s now siesta time (Steve is actually snoring as a type).
Looking forward to another fabulous dinner tonight. May even go big with pasta!
Ciao!

Thanks to a great friend, we were able to borrow these backpacks for our adventure.

Supplies!

Wonder if I can fit everything I need for 3 weeks into one one these?…..

From the reading I’ve been doing, pickpockets can be an issue in Europe, especially Italy.  So I ordered these fancy little money belts for us.  It seems a lot like a fanny pack….Steve wasn’t really impressed 🙂

Thanks for checking out our blog!  We’ll see if I’m able to manage this to successfully share our European adventure with you!

20th Anniversary – August 1, 2012

We are celebrating our 20th anniversary with a backpacking adventure through Italy, Greece & Turkey.  We decided to embark on this adventure without any itinerary.  We have our airline tickets, but that’s pretty much it.  We will arrive in Venice, Italy on May 25th and depart from Istanbul, Turkey on June 14th.  Everything in between will be unplanned.